Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.

power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

I want books written out of a brain and heart and soul crowded and vital with Life, spelled with a big L. I want poetry bursting with passion. I don't care a hang for the 'verbal felicities.' They'll do for the fringe, but I want the garment to warm me first.

No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.